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Ralph Martin

President of Renewal Ministries

Email rmartin@renewalministries.net

Ralph Martin is the president of Renewal Ministries and the host of the weekly Catholic television program The Choices We Face. He holds a doctorate in theology and has just completed twenty-three years as the director of Graduate Theology Programs in the New Evangelization at Sacred Heart Major Seminary in the Archdiocese of Detroit. Ralph is the author of A Life in the Spirit: A Memoir and the widely read A Church in Crisis: Pathways Forward and The Fulfillment of All Desire: A Guidebook for the Journey to God Based on the Wisdom of the Saints.

Ralph and his wife, Anne, reside in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and have six children and nineteen grandchildren.

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A Severe Mercy: Our Time of Visitation

by Peter Herbeck | Aug 9, 2018 | Featured Authors, Peter Herbeck

Dear Brothers and Sisters, I’m writing to share with you a few thoughts as a follow up to Ralph Martin’s excellent and courageous letter Dear Troubled Catholics, regarding the current crisis in the Church. Ralph wrote that this current crisis, precipitated by the...

Proclaiming the New Evangelization in Amsterdam

by Renewal Ministries Staff | Apr 20, 2018 | Uncategorized

Dr. Ralph Martin with a group of Dominican seminarians in Ireland. The following post, “Proclaiming the New Evangelization in Amsterdam”, was originally written by Lisa Martinez for the Mosaic Blog April 1st, 2018. Traveling to Ireland to speak at a large...

The Importance of Sacrifice at Any Age

by Renewal Ministries Staff | Mar 23, 2018 | Uncategorized

Ralph Martin has been speaking at local area Catholic grade schools about Fatima and the importance of making sacrifices, not matter one’s age. We came across this article written by Sr. Mary Martha Becnel, OP who mentions the impact one of these talks had on...

Symposium Honors Fr. Solanus Casey’s Legacy

by Renewal Ministries Staff | Dec 22, 2017 | Uncategorized

In preparation for Fr. Solanus Beatification, Sacred Heart Major Seminary hosted presentations by faculty and guest speakers. This post was originally written by Maggie Doyle for the Sacred Heart Major Seminary Mosaic blog on November 20, 2017. Sacred Heart Major...

The Fatima Children’s Wholehearted ‘Yes’

by Ralph Martin | Oct 13, 2017 | Featured Authors

Today, on the one-hundredth anniversary of the final Fatima apparition, I want to share with you about my recent time in Fatima, where I spoke to a capacity audience of 2,300 people. Thankfully, Anne was able to join me, as the organizers invited her and paid her way,...
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